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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Buzzsnight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm the host of the Take of a Walk podcast
Music History on Foot, and welcome to another edition of
This Week in Music History for the week of January sixth,
and we go to the music history desk to my
dear friend, a longtime radio pro, programming pro and fan
of music, mister Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Harry, I appreciate being a lot for the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, So, how does the opening of the year
look in terms of happenings in music history.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Beginning of January and seventy sixth I when you think
about this for a second, think about, you know, in
the history of live albums, what the biggest ones would
be in our lifetime. January of nineteen seventy six. Peter
Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive came out this week.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What a way to start that year.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Huge album, arguably one of the you know, Rolling Stone
I think how to number three of their live albums
of all time.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Not a bad way to start nineteen seventy six, So
I'll never forget it. Harry.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I was at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio
and working on the radio there at a station called WVUD,
which was owned by the university, a commercial college FM station,
which was a rarity. So I was just beginning to
work there as a student but also as a paid
(01:28):
full timer. And then Frampton Comes Alive comes out. Mind
you big Midwest act. Certainly, Peter Frampton, he exploded beyond
the Midwest certainly with this album. But as someone who
was manning the request line phones and when Frampton Comes
(01:49):
Alive came out, man, those wonderful folks from Ohio, they
would call and request, you know, lines on my face,
Frampton comes Alive.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Something's happening.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was just it was the album and it was
an amazing thing to sort of witness in real time
as we were playing it for the folks of that Dayton,
Ohio area.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Album got a lot of play on rock radio and
pop radio too. I remember, you know, I grew up
in New England where you are now, but I remember
on you know pro FM and JB one O five
listening out of Providence, even you know the Boston stations
playing show Me the Way and Baby I Love Your Way,
and the rock station's doing it as well.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It was pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was a monster and it's so nice seeing everything
come full Circle ending twenty twenty four for Peter Frampton
getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was fortunate to be able to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Sort of watch and cover that there in the press
room and to see the joy with Peter Frampton up there,
certainly playing with Keith Urban, which was pretty amazing, and
also being there because he was inducted by the one
and only Roger Daltrey. It was a magical moment, Harry,
(03:09):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know, And it was one of those songs I
hadn't I knew. Keith Urban, by the way, was a
really good guitar player. I had no idea until I
saw them walk through. Do You Feel Like We Do Together?
Is a great clip. I had no idea he was
bigger in the Midwest than anywhere at the beginning either.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's an interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I think maybe it goes back Harry too, that
you know, Humble Pie had those sort of interesting pockets
of audience there. There was certainly East coast, West coast
eventually for you know, Humble Pie, but I think some
of that really caught on in the Midwest as well,
(03:50):
because the Midwest still to this day loves to rock
and roll.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, absolutely good and you know, I was wondering what
was going on with his health. Obviously, people that saw
that clip would see him sitting down. Anyone that's seen
him knows that he plays sitting down. He's got an
autoimmune disease. It's called inclusion body myocytis, and it's a
degenerative thing, you know, with his nerves, and it's caused
(04:16):
problems with him, you know, being able to stand up
and even playing sometimes can be difficult for him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Great to see him though, on.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
The you know, getting inducted and then getting to play
with with Keith on that legendary song.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It was a wonderful thing to witness and great to
see his happiness after it all went down, just kind
of watching in awe with Keith urban to his side
and Daltrey doing his comedy stick.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well anyway, nineteen seventy six, eleven million copies of that,
and that remained on the charts for a long time
over the years, so it did really.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
This week, a thousand Zeppelin fans cause about thirty thousand
dollars in damage to the Boston Garden well waiting for
tickets to go on sale.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was a rush for tickets the band.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The band was playing on February fourth in Boston, and
you know, there was a little damage to the garden
and Kevin White canceled that show at the Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And what is it when you think about it, as
someone who grew up in the Boston area, Harry how
mayor Kevin White always had to come to the rescue
of something or the shutdown of something. You know that
was going on at the Boston Garden. So I hadn't
remembered this particular moment that you'd talk about there. But
(05:39):
then when you think about it and thinking about how
mayor White had to keep the peace and you know,
provincial Boston. Not surprising that that all went down.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The People's Republic of Boston under Kevin White, as far
as I'm concerned, But yeah, he had to come to
the rescue and do his thing. And in nineteen sixteen,
while the Beatles were filming Let it Be, George Harrison
left the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did you know this?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
He was frustrated by the Dynamics in particular, wasn't pleased
with McCartney and the way he dominated the band.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Is that something you were familiar with not to this degree.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It came to light in greater detail watching the amazing documentary,
and sort of you could kind of see how George
sort of felt a little bit like, what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Am I a hired hand or something? You know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He didn't feel like he was being heard to him.
It didn't feel like a collaboration. So I knew there
was tension, we all did, but the documentary certainly did
put a light on it in a different way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Crazy story.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Two other things of importance happened this week January tenth.
RCA introduced the forty five, which they claimed would revolutionize music,
including offering the most I can't laugh. And while I'm
reading this, offering the most durable and highest fidelity format
at the time, think about that the forty five is
(07:08):
the highest fidelity format.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Have come aways, haven't we? I think so? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then all of a sudden, when you had to
get those little adapters to put in the forty five
to make sure that it went into the proper spindle,
you know, And you occasionally see some I don't know,
I guess some person who finds themselves a little too
cool for the room, who is wearing one of those
(07:34):
adapters around their neck. Have you ever seen one of
those that someone wears as a fashion statement.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I have, But what I've also seen is someone wearing
it as a T shirt, a big logo on a
T shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
The fashion statement around the neck maybe is a bit
much for me, But who am I to say?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So? You're talking to like the same way Flavo Flave
wears his clock, These people wear the forty five, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Around there? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
On that note, I got one more pop culture item
for you, and that'll be the end of this week.
In nineteen ninety four, Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in Detroit.
It was later linked to Tanya Harding. Do you remember
the guy that was in the middle of that. Remember
the guy? Remember?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, when you tell me, I'm going to say, yes,
I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jeff Galilee.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, whacked Nancy Kerrigan from Stoton, Mass.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Whatever happened to Jeff Galilee. That's a really good question.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was going to say the same thing about Tanya Harding.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It is probably available as one of those people selling
videos or whatever to his fan base.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I can't I can't imagine that.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Because he was so maligned for his crime, Jeff Galuley
changed his name to Jeff Stone.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
By the way, this could have been what Bill Buckner
should have done after the nineteen eighty six Matt's Game.
He should have just changed his name and that would
be the end of that. But Galulei made the right
play by the way. He served his sentence and then
changed his name to Jeff Stone.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And now it looks like used cars and other various
businesses in that ilk.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
He had enough of the name and he had to
change it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My god.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, Harry, thanks for putting this all together for this
week in music history and pop culture, and Jeff Galulei
for the week of January sixth on taking a Walk,
and please check out Taking a Walk on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast
I'm Buzzsnight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm the host of the Take of a Walk podcast
Music History on Foot, and welcome to another edition of
This Week in Music History for the week of January sixth,
and we go to the music history desk to my
dear friend, a longtime radio pro, programming pro and fan
of music, mister Harry Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Harry, I appreciate being a lot for the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, So, how does the opening of the year
look in terms of happenings in music history.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Beginning of January and seventy sixth I when you think
about this for a second, think about, you know, in
the history of live albums, what the biggest ones would
be in our lifetime. January of nineteen seventy six. Peter
Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive came out this week.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
What a way to start that year.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Huge album, arguably one of the you know, Rolling Stone
I think how to number three of their live albums
of all time.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Not a bad way to start nineteen seventy six, So
I'll never forget it. Harry.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I was at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio
and working on the radio there at a station called WVUD,
which was owned by the university, a commercial college FM station,
which was a rarity. So I was just beginning to
work there as a student but also as a paid
(01:28):
full timer. And then Frampton Comes Alive comes out. Mind
you big Midwest act. Certainly, Peter Frampton, he exploded beyond
the Midwest certainly with this album. But as someone who
was manning the request line phones and when Frampton Comes
(01:49):
Alive came out, man, those wonderful folks from Ohio, they
would call and request, you know, lines on my face,
Frampton comes Alive.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Something's happening.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was just it was the album and it was
an amazing thing to sort of witness in real time
as we were playing it for the folks of that Dayton,
Ohio area.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Album got a lot of play on rock radio and
pop radio too. I remember, you know, I grew up
in New England where you are now, but I remember
on you know pro FM and JB one O five
listening out of Providence, even you know the Boston stations
playing show Me the Way and Baby I Love Your Way,
and the rock station's doing it as well.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It was pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was a monster and it's so nice seeing everything
come full Circle ending twenty twenty four for Peter Frampton
getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I was fortunate to be able to.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Sort of watch and cover that there in the press
room and to see the joy with Peter Frampton up there,
certainly playing with Keith Urban, which was pretty amazing, and
also being there because he was inducted by the one
and only Roger Daltrey. It was a magical moment, Harry,
(03:09):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know, And it was one of those songs I
hadn't I knew. Keith Urban, by the way, was a
really good guitar player. I had no idea until I
saw them walk through. Do You Feel Like We Do Together?
Is a great clip. I had no idea he was
bigger in the Midwest than anywhere at the beginning either.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's an interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, I think maybe it goes back Harry too, that
you know, Humble Pie had those sort of interesting pockets
of audience there. There was certainly East coast, West coast
eventually for you know, Humble Pie, but I think some
of that really caught on in the Midwest as well,
(03:50):
because the Midwest still to this day loves to rock
and roll.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, absolutely good and you know, I was wondering what
was going on with his health. Obviously, people that saw
that clip would see him sitting down. Anyone that's seen
him knows that he plays sitting down. He's got an
autoimmune disease. It's called inclusion body myocytis, and it's a
degenerative thing, you know, with his nerves, and it's caused
(04:16):
problems with him, you know, being able to stand up
and even playing sometimes can be difficult for him.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Great to see him though, on.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
The you know, getting inducted and then getting to play
with with Keith on that legendary song.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It was a wonderful thing to witness and great to
see his happiness after it all went down, just kind
of watching in awe with Keith urban to his side
and Daltrey doing his comedy stick.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well anyway, nineteen seventy six, eleven million copies of that,
and that remained on the charts for a long time
over the years, so it did really.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
This week, a thousand Zeppelin fans cause about thirty thousand
dollars in damage to the Boston Garden well waiting for
tickets to go on sale.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was a rush for tickets the band.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The band was playing on February fourth in Boston, and
you know, there was a little damage to the garden
and Kevin White canceled that show at the Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And what is it when you think about it, as
someone who grew up in the Boston area, Harry how
mayor Kevin White always had to come to the rescue
of something or the shutdown of something. You know that
was going on at the Boston Garden. So I hadn't
remembered this particular moment that you'd talk about there. But
(05:39):
then when you think about it and thinking about how
mayor White had to keep the peace and you know,
provincial Boston. Not surprising that that all went down.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The People's Republic of Boston under Kevin White, as far
as I'm concerned, But yeah, he had to come to
the rescue and do his thing. And in nineteen sixteen,
while the Beatles were filming Let it Be, George Harrison
left the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Did you know this?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
He was frustrated by the Dynamics in particular, wasn't pleased
with McCartney and the way he dominated the band.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Is that something you were familiar with not to this degree.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It came to light in greater detail watching the amazing documentary,
and sort of you could kind of see how George
sort of felt a little bit like, what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Am I a hired hand or something? You know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He didn't feel like he was being heard to him.
It didn't feel like a collaboration. So I knew there
was tension, we all did, but the documentary certainly did
put a light on it in a different way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Crazy story.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Two other things of importance happened this week January tenth.
RCA introduced the forty five, which they claimed would revolutionize music,
including offering the most I can't laugh. And while I'm
reading this, offering the most durable and highest fidelity format
at the time, think about that the forty five is
(07:08):
the highest fidelity format.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Have come aways, haven't we? I think so? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then all of a sudden, when you had to
get those little adapters to put in the forty five
to make sure that it went into the proper spindle,
you know, And you occasionally see some I don't know,
I guess some person who finds themselves a little too
cool for the room, who is wearing one of those
(07:34):
adapters around their neck. Have you ever seen one of
those that someone wears as a fashion statement.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I have, But what I've also seen is someone wearing
it as a T shirt, a big logo on a
T shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
The fashion statement around the neck maybe is a bit
much for me, But who am I to say?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So? You're talking to like the same way Flavo Flave
wears his clock, These people wear the forty five, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Around there? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
On that note, I got one more pop culture item
for you, and that'll be the end of this week.
In nineteen ninety four, Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in Detroit.
It was later linked to Tanya Harding. Do you remember
the guy that was in the middle of that. Remember
the guy? Remember?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, when you tell me, I'm going to say, yes,
I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jeff Galilee.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, whacked Nancy Kerrigan from Stoton, Mass.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Whatever happened to Jeff Galilee. That's a really good question.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was going to say the same thing about Tanya Harding.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It is probably available as one of those people selling
videos or whatever to his fan base.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I can't I can't imagine that.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Because he was so maligned for his crime, Jeff Galuley
changed his name to Jeff Stone.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
By the way, this could have been what Bill Buckner
should have done after the nineteen eighty six Matt's Game.
He should have just changed his name and that would
be the end of that. But Galulei made the right
play by the way. He served his sentence and then
changed his name to Jeff Stone.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And now it looks like used cars and other various
businesses in that ilk.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
He had enough of the name and he had to
change it.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My god.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, Harry, thanks for putting this all together for this
week in music history and pop culture, and Jeff Galulei
for the week of January sixth on taking a Walk,
and please check out Taking a Walk on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast
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